The Week That Was

Monday - I stayed home sick
Tuesday - L spent the night at home
Wednesday - the van broke down after I had dropped the kids off for activities but before I finished my errand and could pick them up
Thursday - D lost a tooth and this happened to B

Friday - first day of baseball and the end of a very strange week

Fragrant Dreams

Another weird dream last night. I have been trying to remember how to tell it in a linear fashion, but I can only come up with bits and pieces with recurring elements, but no overarching story line. Some of what I can remember:

• We seemed to live in a normal neighborhood, although everyone was extremely familiar with each other, from knowing our dog's name, to thinking nothing of walking in to each others back yards, to having heard a funny story about one of my children before I did. A little discomfiting.
• A bunch of us went to some kind of event that seemed to be a combination of street fair, movie-set Main Street, and staging area for an excursion of some kind. At some point, we took a detour to the back lot, where we saw the "seamy underbelly of a small town festival", and where I got separated from my family.
• Then suddenly my "guide" and I were back in some kind of shopping center, where he encouraged me to make a life-size Grinch at the the Build-a-Bear kiosk. I declined.
• Then we were back in the staging area, where the tour staff where sorting out each families' belongings, which had gotten all muddled up after unloading from their excursions (ours seemed to include a duck boat). Again, very discomfiting, because that level of familiarity meant that people were not only looking for their own items, they were so helpful in pointing out that basket of dirty laundry must belong to so and so, and recognizing that striped towel as belonging to the Ketterman boy. By this point I did not like some of my neighbors so much anymore.
• The guy who had been my guide seemed to be laughing at my discomfort with the whole scene, but then he must have took mercy, because he gave me a little hug as he handed me a duffle bag and pointed out where my family was.
• I remember that he was wearing a light blue polo shirt and that he was very fit. When he hugged me, he smelled awesome. I waved to L, and then turned back to give the guy another big hug just so I could sniff him some more.
• Then I met up with my family and we went home to have a backyard barbecue.